German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a ceremony where the country’s new Justice Minister was given her certificate of appointment by the German President at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin on June 27, 2019. Kay Nietfeld / dpa / AFPGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered another episode of uncontrolled trembling on Thursday, a week after a similar incident sparked questions about her health.
Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert later tweeted she was on the way to Osaka for the G20 summit, and that “numerous bilateral talks with other leaders and government are planned”. Meanwhile, to head off a repeat of an aircraft failure that forced Merkel to arrive late to the previous G20 summit in Buenos Aires, German media reported that a second A340 is flying to Osaka on standby.Merkel frequently called the European Union’s most influential leader and the most powerful woman in the world, turns 65 next month.There were brief concerns about her health in 2014 when she was taken ill during a television interview.
Seibert explained at the time the leader did not feel well for a moment, then ate and drank something and continued the interview.